In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara ...

Told through tens of thousands declassified British intelligence documents, "Recording Evil" reveals the candid conversations of Nazi officers and soldiers held as prisoners of war during WWII.

Wrong, you've actually been swallowing WW2 propaganda. Film by Max Tobin ... for our clocks changing twice a year. For the British cellist, the cello isn't just an instrument, it's a companion ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

Set in 1943, Operation Mincemeat follows two British intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, as they hatch an elaborate plan to mislead Nazi Germany. With the stakes at their ...

In 1941, a top-secret psychological warfare unit was established by the British government and tasked ... This brazen piece of propaganda was just one of many outrageous proposals that came ...

often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was no British-invented fiction In 1818 the rani of ...

On 7 September 1940, the German air force launched a eight-month campaign that would rain explosives on 16 major British cities ... of Information created propaganda films to bolster public ...

Here are six mistakes you can spot in WW2 movies. Outright theft! The British captured the first ... pure fiction based on Soviet wartime propaganda anyway. Another howler is that the Red Army ...

The statues have been created by Standing with Giants – the team behind the D-Day display at the British Normandy Memorial, which was unveiled last year. By 1943, 90% of single women of working ...